Most Difficult Sport?

Which sport?

  • Football

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Basketball

    Votes: 2 4.3%

  • Tennis

    Votes: 6 12.8%

  • Soccer

    Votes: 3 6.4%

  • Ice Hockey

    Votes: 13 27.7%

  • Boxing

    Votes: 11 23.4%

  • Baseball

    Votes: 3 6.4%

  • Swimming

    Votes: 1 2.1%

  • Track and Field

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 8 17.0%
  • Total voters
    47
veritech

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in your opinion, what is the most difficult sport to play? you could base it solely from a mental perspective, or physical, or both. maybe you played the sport and thought it was the toughest, or maybe you just watched it on tv.

there are no definite answers. what do you think is the most difficult sport to play?
 
Hockey! It's the fastest sport on foot. 20+ mph head on collision and falling on solid ice is life threatening. If that's not scary enough, how about standing in front of a 90+ mph slap shot from a half pound vulcanized rubber?

Skill wise, not only you have to balance, skate, turn, stop... all the while dangling on the puck on a 5 ft long stick.

Do or say anything stupid? Drop the gloves and eat some bare knuckle sandwich... yes, it happens in recreation leagues too.

All in all, eye hand coordination, speed, balance, strength, stamina, team work and little bit of insanity are required.
 
Boxing is the only sport there that has people arguing that it's cruel and should be banned. So I'd have to go with that one.
 
What no Golf? How could you leave it off after all the recent discussion on the boards?!!!

No question about it. Golf.
 
The old standby is baseball, and I don't know that it's been passed up yet. Anyone who has tried to hit a round ball with a round bat and guess which pitch is being thrown (if you've faced a pitcher with a good curve, you'd understand what I mean) can appreciate how truly coordinated the best baseball players are.
 
I agree that golf should be in the list. However, seeing as the golf swing is technically very similar to the hockey slap shot, I'd say hockey is more difficult because you have the added element of being on skates and you have to act quickly since the opponent is ready to smack you.
 
SlapShot said:
The old standby is baseball, and I don't know that it's been passed up yet. Anyone who has tried to hit a round ball with a round bat and guess which pitch is being thrown (if you've faced a pitcher with a good curve, you'd understand what I mean) can appreciate how truly coordinated the best baseball players are.
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lol, ever tried cricket? Facing 90mph+ balls that bounce, swing, seam, spit at you.. that's before they even bring the spinners on! Oh and you have to do it all day long, not just one hit and you're a hero.
 
Feña14 said:
lol, ever tried cricket? Facing 90mph+ balls that bounce, swing, seam, spit at you.. that's before they even bring the spinners on! Oh and you have to do it all day long, not just one hit and you're a hero.
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I second that! Got to be one of the most tactical & draining game!
 
Having played just about all these sports (including cricket!) recreationally, I'm of the humble opinion that ice hockey is by far the most difficult. Obviously the word "difficult" leaves a lot of semantic interpretation, but I look at it this way: ice hockey is the only sport that someone can't just pick up quickly after a few tries. I can reasonably hit a golf ball, even though I've played golf maybe 5 times. I could put a bat in the hands of a total novice, show them a few tips on hitting, and they could have a half a chance of hitting a ball tossed at them. Same type of idea for other sports. But if I took a total newbie to ice hockey and gave them a stick, put them on skates, and asked them to try to shoot the puck in a net....they'd be flailing around for months.

It's not so much the stick and puck, it's the skating that makes it hard--nay, close to impossible--for many people.

Of course I'm talking *recreationally* played sports, not *pro* sports. I'd still rank hockey as being among the toughest pro sports to play, though.

And although I'm Canadian *now*, I wasn't born Canadian, so I had to pick up ice hockey from scratch...so I know a little of what I speak ;) I'm good at it now, but boy...it took me over two winters to get even the slightest bit competent.
 
kairosntx said:
What no Golf? How could you leave it off after all the recent discussion on the boards?!!!

No question about it. Golf.
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I thought you said golf was not a sport (I may be wrong, sorry)?

But is amusing to me that its not on the list.

I say Hockey. Just seems so hard to balance yourself while moving around people to score a goal.
 
Feña14 said:
lol, ever tried cricket? Facing 90mph+ balls that bounce, swing, seam, spit at you.. that's before they even bring the spinners on! Oh and you have to do it all day long, not just one hit and you're a hero.
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Ive never played but have seen others play and it looks pretty intense
 
Serious post...

When I was teaching martial arts I used to get some ballet dancers come and work out with us and they would leave my guys (a pretty fit crew) for dead. Those guys had the most phenomenal strength, flexibility and aerobic capacity I've come across. I imagine doing what they do every day would be a tough business.
 
Mixed Martial Arts hands down. So many skill sets to know, master, and collaborate together to have a "decent" fighter. And thats not including strength, mental toughness, and athleticism.

-Jon
 
galain said:
Serious post...

When I was teaching martial arts I used to get some ballet dancers come and work out with us and they would leave my guys (a pretty fit crew) for dead. Those guys had the most phenomenal strength, flexibility and aerobic capacity I've come across. I imagine doing what they do every day would be a tough business.
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I completely agree with you. Ballet dancers are ridiculously strong and fit. It's just that nobody really sees dance, especially ballet, as being particularly taxing, when in reality, it is.
 
Arguing about which sport is most difficult to be come #1 in the World at, or a Pro is kind of meaningless since the odds of being one in any sport is very far south of 0.1% in any sport.
 
Mountain Climbing

I believe the ratio of deaths to participants in mountain climbing maybe higher than any other sport.

Or at least they have more deaths per year.
 
Mixed martial arts because you have to be well versed in striking, takedowns, takedown defense, and submissions. If you lack a single ingredient, you'll be exposed on your weakness or weaknesses. There was a time when great grapplers dominated mma, but now they have to be good at everything because the competition's gotten too good.
 
Feña14 said:
lol, ever tried cricket? Facing 90mph+ balls that bounce, swing, seam, spit at you.. that's before they even bring the spinners on! Oh and you have to do it all day long, not just one hit and you're a hero.
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The thought of batting without a helmet against someone like Shoaib Akhtar scares me.
 
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